site map question re: noindex, follow

[amythepoet]

Hi,

If I have this on my site map page,

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,FOLLOW">will the search engines search my page?

[bill]

They will not index the page, but they will follow the links on the page if they honor the meta robots tag.

[amythepoet]

Oh, so to get them to index the page, should I take out the line I just sent?

[larryhatch]

Yes. By all means, get rid of the NOINDEX unless you want them to NOT index.
Why did you put that in in the first place?
I would delete the entire line. -Larry

[amythepoet]

Ok good I will delete the entire line

I think some webmaster a long time ago told me to put it in there.

Before I take it out, is there any particular form the site map should take? I'm saying should I group things together

such as red widgets and blue widgets

can I make it a list of all of the urls?

[bill]

Instead of NOINDEX you could use this:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,FOLLOW">

Here are instructions on use of the Robots meta tag: [robotstxt.org...]

[amythepoet]

Thanks, that's great

when I do make the site map, I'm having troubles with the section headers,

I want to make one section for red widgets, one for blue widgets

can I just make each section a header 2? <h2>

and then underneath use the <dd> command for the lists>?
such a l
<h2>RED WIDGETS</h2>
<dd>little red widget</dd>
<dd> big red widgets</dd>

or is there a better way?